What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Premature’ and ‘The Painter and the Thief’

What’s Streaming

PREMATURE (2020) Stream on Hulu. Two people meet, form an undeniable connection and fall in love. But the timing just isn’t right. It’s a familiar story, yet there are more layers to this romantic drama by the filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green. Seventeen-year-old Ayanna (Zora Howard), an aspiring poet, is enjoying summer at home in Harlem with her friends before going off to college. Enter Isaiah, (Joshua Boone), an older music producer who instantly catches her eye. They bond over their artistic ambitions and embark on a dreamy summer romance, but reality strikes when discussions about the future crop up. Jeannette Catsoulis named “Premature” a Critic’s Pick, and in her review for The New York Times wrote that “the poetry of the writing and the vibrancy of the filmmaking” lift the movie above its narrative clichés.

THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF (2020) Stream on Hulu; rent or buy on Amazon, Google Play, FandangoNOW, iTunes or Vudu. There are several moments in this documentary that could have been plucked straight out of a dramatic thriller. After Barbora Kysilkova, a Czech artist, learns that two of her paintings were stolen from a gallery in Oslo, she comes face-to-face with one of the culprits during his criminal hearing and asks him if he will sit for a portrait. Stranger still, he agrees. The title characters bond over the course of a few years — a turn of events even the director, Benjamin Ree, couldn’t anticipate — and we start to see the commonalities between them. While the film initially seems to be told from Kysilkova’s perspective, Ree deftly reminds the viewer that there are infinite sides to one story. (Being the person behind the camera, he also controls the narrative.) As Nordland puts it, “She sees me very well, but she forgets I can see her too.”

MEMORIAL DAY MARATHON 6 a.m. on TCM. While many of us may not be able to celebrate the holiday weekend at a barbecue with friends and family, another tradition remains: This three-day marathon of classic wartime movies. Among the titles airing Saturday are Samuel Fuller’s “The Steel Helmet” (1951), at 4 p.m., Michael Curtiz’s “Casablanca” (1942), at 8 p.m., and Mervyn LeRoy’s “Waterloo Bridge” (1940), at 10 p.m.

GROUP CHAT: THE SHOW 8:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon. To those who have been stuck between four walls because of coronavirus concerns, it may seem like life has completely shifted online. (How many Zoom calls have you joined this week?) Nickelodeon is leaning into that “new normal” with this children’s talk show. The teenage internet personalities Annie LeBlanc and Jayden Bartels (who are set to star in a Nickelodeon series called “Side Hustle”) will go over the week’s most talked-about subjects, play games and compete in challenges — all over video chat. A half-hour virtual special featuring characters from “The Loud House” and “The Casagrandes” leads in at 8 p.m.